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Originally Posted by La Flames Fan
Yup. The privatization of space. Exactly how a lot of people wanted it.
What was the purpose of the DC fly-by? Shot across the bow? Or just ceremonious?
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I've always thought that we would have been a lot further along in the actual exploration of space by this point. In a lot of ways the shuttle concept ruined that.
From a prospect of putting sensing devices into space, its great, but the great push for humanity should be outward not around it.
When man landed on the moon nearly 43 years ago, with the way that aviation sciences and all of our other applied sciences were going through rapid accelerated improvements, I always thought we would be heading for Mars by the start of the century (Just think about what a great celebration of mankind it would have been to launch a mars mission on Jan 1, 2000.
Instead we stalled and man's push went from scientific to how to create a better screw in space.
Now the only way that we're going to be able to do this exploration of other worlds is to sell the naming rights to the mission, and allow companies to put in claims on the surface of the moon, and mars and all the little moons out there, and they're only going to do that if we get the mineral rights.
In the same words that my old man used when describing me, we had so much potential, and we've just fallen flat.